If you had to guess what students between the ages of 12 and 17 think about STEM, what do you think they would say? According to the Lemelson-MIT Invention Index survey, 77% of the students involved in the survey said that they were excited about those subjects and were considering a STEM career.
If that news wasn't good enough, 66% of the students, whether individually or in a group, said they enjoyed hands-on projects most. Do you know what this means? We have students who want to use their hands, getting involved in the lesson and understanding what they are being taught. It also means that hands-on activities in the classroom could lead to tinkering, which could lead to inventing and engineering.
The survey found that in addition to hands-on learning students were interested in nontraditional settings. The survey also showed that students wished they knew more about STEM and that teachers' being excited about STEM would help them to get excited about it too.
With programs such as the Lemelson-MIT program (which encourages inventors and innovators) and the presidential campaign Educate to Innovate (which aims to increase the student's involvement in science, technology, engineering, and math) in our corner, next year's survey results may be even higher.
To read more about the survey results, check out http://mit.edu/invent/n-pressreleases/n-press-10index.html.
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